coal

I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy asking, “can I have your pickle?”

[coal @coolsandstorm]

Me, watching “The Mummy” (1999): man, this mummy guy is no good, I hoped never comes back.

Me, learning about “The Mummy Returns” (2001): OH SHIT. FUCK. THIS IS SO FUCKED UP

[David Orkin @david4queens]

Kristen is an editor at the Queens Chronicle. Her signature was forged on AM Rajkumar’s ballot access petitions, along with those of more than 1000 other AD-38 constituents.

My opponent seems to think democracy is a joke. On 6/23, voters can decide whether they think it’s funny.

[Always Be Primarying🌹 @ideologicalized]

Let’s go!

[kristian steffany @kksteffany]

And because he’s not on this site- I want to give Jeremy C his flowers for his leadership & diligent SIO work for @nycDSA 🌹 A testament to the importance of building power and relationships through a *shared* commitment to a better world.

[Darializa for Congress @DarializaforNY]

We only have a few more days left of petitioning — so join us this week to help us finish strong! Sign up here: https://t.co/PlsV4FpJyM

[Always Be Primarying🌹 @ideologicalized]

Guys I know I'm preaching to the choir & most of you already canvass pretty regularly but for those who do not, you really gotta get out there and start canvassing regularly for our NYC DSA candidates. I feel like the number of field leads is great but we need more canvassers.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Frederick Wiseman changed the way we see the world.

From the classrooms of High School to the corridors of Hospital, he turned his camera on the institutions that shape us — inviting us to look closer, sit longer & confront truth with empathy. 

May his memory be a blessing.

[Ilhan Omar @IlhanMN]

You are one of the dumbest people on earth, my district is literally a majority white district. Your conspiracy theories are laughable and should have no place in a society that cares about facts.

[Daniel Denvir @DanielDenvir]

Matt Stoller is an absolute scumbag.

[Waleed Shahid 🪬 @_waleedshahid]

Nothing says “we are reasonable stewards of housing” quite like Landlords and Friends™ launching a full-scale pile-on against a tenant advocate.

If your public image problem is that people think you’re cruel and exploitative, bullying Cea Weaver, one of the most well-regarded tenant advocates in the country, is an interesting strategy.

[coal @coolsandstorm]

Cea Weaver is the absolute best and everyone who thinks otherwise is a chump

[Seth Pollack @sethmpk]

Some people, mostly outside NYC, seem confused.

NYC-DSA isn’t debating who’s good or bad. We’re deciding where to spend our time & money: The biggest slate of state candidates we’ve EVER run, who can help pass Zohran’s agenda, or the most expensive Congressional primary possible

[Joe Wrote @joewrote]

At first I was bummed Zohran and AOC opposed Osse’s challenge of Jeffries (It’s a direct parallel to AOC taking out Crowley) but the more I learn about him the more I understand their side. Ossé is an opportunist – he joined DSA in October after previously dismissing DSA…

[donald @Boringstein]

Tascha is quite genuinely one of the greatest political minds in America & moreover the kind of leader that truly lifts everyone up with her. Constantly in awe of what she & the entire field team pulled off & the infectiously joyful energy they carried thru the whole campaign

[Peter Sterne @petersterne]

NEW: @DianaCMoreno, a community organizer and union staffer who previously served as co-chair of Queens DSA, is now running to succeed Zohran Mamdani as the Assembly member representing "the People's Republic of Astoria" https://t.co/4BRjPJjlG4

[Diana Moreno @DianaforQueens]

Some personal news: I’m preparing to run for Zohran’s Assembly seat.

As a Queens mom, an immigrant organizer, and a democratic socialist, I’m ready to fight for the working people of Queens! LET’S WIN THIS!🔥

https://t.co/5ZHIUd0C92

[Eon Tyrell Huntley @EonHuntley4BKN]

I’m Eon Huntley, a father, retail worker, democratic socialist and lifelong Brooklynite running for State Assembly to:

🏙️End rent hikes, displacement, and deed theft
🍼Win free, quality childcare and education
✊🏾Get ICE out of NYC

Join our movement: https://t.co/aFtY4FGAoA

[Cassie Pritchard @hecubian_devil]

I’ve said versions of this before, and I think I need to sit down and write a real argument soon, but to reiterate for now:

The American left is righteously indignant that people like Mamdani aren’t waging the struggle for Palestinian liberation *our* way. Which is insane, because our way failed.

We completely shit the bed. When it was obvious to all of us on the left, shortly after Oct 7th, 2023, that Israel was moving to enact a scorched-earth genocide of Gaza, we found ourselves utterly unable to do anything about it. Not one fucking thing. It’s been 2 years and we haven’t even slowed down the sale of US arms. We utterly, totally failed.

That alone is infuriating. We should all be looking at ourselves, our organizations, our theories, and our models of praxis and be ready to throw them all out. Everything except the moral compass should be on the chopping block. Ruthless criticism of all things starts with ourselves, and our politics.

If we knew how to advocate correctly for Palestinian liberation, if we had the correct playbook, then why have we been flapping our gums to useless effect for two years? Why were we utterly unprepared and unable to respond in the first place? Why did we let things get so bad?

Yes, public opinion is finally, belatedly turning, but almost entirely because social media lets people see the videos recorded by Gazan journalists and civilians themselves. The American left flatters itself far too much to think we’ve had much to do with this sea change. We’ve been doing the same shit we’ve been doing for 40 years and it has added up to little more than the ability to be smugly “correct” while children starve and hospitals burn. We use the correct words, we know the correct history, we have the correct slogans—we tell The Truth, never mind whether anyone listens. Never mind whether it has any force.

The genocide in Gaza is an event that totally destroyed any residual trust I had in the left’s received wisdom about how to do politics. We clearly have no fucking idea what we’re doing, and we need to shape up fast. I am so tired of being asked to console myself with moral superiority while I watch the world burn. It’s not good enough.

Hammering Mamdani or anyone else for doing politics “the wrong way” (according to our leftist received wisdom) doesn’t put food in the hands of children in Gaza. It doesn’t do anything at all, actually, except burnish your credentials with other leftists on the internet, and provide the catharsis that lets you ignore, for a moment, how utterly fucked and powerless we are. That catharsis is a trap. You pour your anger onto someone like Mamdani and feel, for a moment, like you’re doing something, when you know damn well we aren’t. And we haven’t been, for a very long time.

Save your anger for people who actually hold opposing values and goals, and for god’s sake have a little humility about prescribing the same old shit leftists have been doing in America for 80 years. To what effect? To what end? To watch Gaza burn?

Someday, we will either acknowledge we have been doing things wrong and change course, or we’ll enter a deeper barbarism than any of us have yet lived through. I hope we decide our pride is less important than our liberation—but thus far I’m not optimistic.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

So much disinformation on this site tonight in the wake of the horrific Kirk murder, with conservatives cynically suggesting that all of the political violence in this country comes from the left.

In fact it’s the opposite. Here are the facts for those with short memories:

The man who targeted and killed Democratic state Rep Melissa Hortman was a Trump supporter.

The man who targeted the home of Dem Governor Josh Shapiro was a Trump supporter.

The men who wanted to hang Mike Pence on Jan 6th were Trump supporters.

The man who targeted and killed the son of Obama-appointed District Judge Esther Salas was a Trump supporter.

The man who tried to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and assaulted her husband was a Trump supporter.

The men who were convicted trying to kidnap Dem Governor Gretchen Whitmer were Trump supporters.

The man who sent pipe bombs to the homes of Obama and Biden was a Trump supporter.

There is no equivalent or even similar list of Obama or Biden supporters who have carried out similar murders, attempted murders, or violent attacks.

[Alissa Wilkinson @alissamarie]

New Yorkers -- because of the sheer size of this movie, and because the stacked autumn season is coming, I don't know how long this will stay in theaters. I cannot urge you strongly enough to read this review and then get yourself over to Film Forum this week.

[aaron from queens 🇵🇸 @aaronnarraph]

Proud that the @DSASocMaj resolution I co-authored, “Seize the Moment! Defeat Corporate Democrats and Elect More Socialists,” passed on the consent agenda!

DSA will run a slate of congressional candidates & create a subcommittee to research districts 🗳️

https://t.co/qpdgLJF335